Voters in Slovakia are heading to the polls in a parliamentary election that is anticipated to hand retain the ruling party’s majority and hand a third term to anti-refugee Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Polling stations opened at 7:00 local time (0600 GMT) and will close at 22:00.

Opinion polls suggest that Fico’s Smer SD Party will win the polls but lose its majority at the parliament due to corruption scandals within the party and its support of unpopular low pays for teachers and nurses.

However, Fico’s recent stance against taking in refugees as well as some welfare measures could secure 30 percent of the votes for his party, which is enough to form a government with a coalition partner.

Fico has adopted an anti-refugee rhetoric and rejected multi-culturalism in predominantly Catholic Slovakia as a “fiction.” He has claimed that terrorists can enter Europe disguised as refugees, and said Slovakia should “monitor every Muslim” in the wake of terrorist attacks in the French capital of Paris by Takfiri militants in November last year.

“We’ll never bring even a single Muslim to Slovakia, we won’t create any Muslim communities here because they pose a serious security risk,” he said at an election campaign in Bratislava ahead of the elections.

His refugee policies echoed those of Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban, Poland’s Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Czech President Milos Zeman. The four have pledged to help Bulgaria and Macedonia build fences at their borders with Greece to stop the ongoing flow of refugees.

Some 30,000 asylum-seekers are currently stranded in northern Greece as a number of its neighbor states have imposed restrictions on their borders. Europe is facing an unprecedented influx of refugees, most of whom are fleeing conflict-ridden zones in Africa and the Middle East.